FOSTER CITY — Klaus Gachter was apparently preparing a meal in the moments before he was killed, a neighbor said Monday.

Dennis Stanwood entered Gachter’s home around 3 p.m. Friday after Gachter’s maid discovered the man’s body and ran screaming down Waterbury Lane, an idyllic cul-de-sac along the lagoon. Stanwood said he accompanied the maid back to Gachter’s home, where he saw the 71-year-old man lying face down in the middle of the kitchen and a raw steak on the counter. The scene led him to believe Gachter was killed Thursday night.

“It looked like he was getting ready to cook dinner,” said Stanwood, 67. “There was a stool kicked over, a steak sitting on a plate, and the TV was on.”

Gachter did not have any visible wounds, but there was blood on either side of his body, he said.

“I only looked for a couple seconds, but it’s one of those images you don’t forget,” said Stanwood, adding, “We don’t have crime here. It’s just kind of a gruesome thing to have happen.”

Police believe Gachter’s death was a homicide, the first in Foster City since 2006. Police said Monday they have not identified any suspects or persons of interest in the case. They do not think Gachter’s death was the result of a random act of violence.

Neighbors said they didn’t know much about Gachter, whom they described as a private man. Stanwood said he rarely saw Gachter, though he’d occasionally glimpse him driving by in his red Ferrari. Police Capt. Jon Froomin said Gachter did not appear to be married or have any children.

Records show Gacher at one time worked for Traffic International Corp., a freight-forwarding company in South San Francisco. A woman who answered the phone at Traffic International on Monday said Gachter retired several years ago.

Though Gachter maintained a low profile on Waterbury Lane, he was active online and appears to have been fond of adventure. On Twitter and his personal website he shared a video of himself sky-diving in the Himalayas in October. Another video shows him feeding manta rays while scuba-diving in Palau.

Intuitive Surgical paid $30.4 million in cash on March 5 for a more than three-decade-old building about two blocks from its current headquarters, which are on Kifer Road in Sunnyvale, according to Santa Clara County property records.

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